Watch out Google Apps, Office “14” is coming to the Web – and unlike the Google version, it works with the offline rich client as well as mobile devices to give a whole new set of features.
Some salient points:
- Office 14 is going to be available in the normal rich client version
- The Web version will be included into the applications
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote are the apps that will be available in the “cloud” :)
- Seamless syncing of content between the desktop, Web and mobile will be possible
- Multiple people can work on the same document in different media at the same time and see changes in real-time
- The Web version works on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari
- If you have the Silverlight 2 plugin installed (in any of the above browsers) you get an even richer experience than the Ajax based one which mimics the rich desktop client almost exactly
- The rendering engines in each application is the same as the one in the desktop version and hence the document you view in your desktop will be exactly the same as the one the Web!
- You get all the rich features – charts, tables, WordArt, SmartArt etc. on both the Desktop and Web version – YAY!
Check out the video over at Channel9 for a quick cool demo.
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